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SOUTH CAROLINA’S GUBERNATORIAL LEADERSHIP:
Assessing the Past and Anticipating the Future
Fred CarterFrancis Marion University
October 10, 2011
Unifying Leadership?
Aggressive Leadership?....Policy or Politics?
Visionary Leadership?
Efficacious Leadership?
Progressive Leadership?
Enduring Leadership?
THE STANDARD FOR DEFINING A “GOOD” GOVERNOR
Transactional Leadership (Sustaining/Maintaining)
Versus
Transformational (Changing/Adapting)
JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS’ MEASURES OF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP
• Short to Intermediate Term Effect
• Compromising or Bargaining Strategy
• Opinion/Group/Legislative/Party Influences
• Focus on Means to the Exclusive of Ends
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
• Long term Effect to Permanent Impact
• Reform or Revolutionary Strategy
• Policy and Value Influences
• Focus on Means to Achieve Ends
EXAMINING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE:
APPRAISING THE GOVERNORS
THE AGENDA
• Education Policy
• EIA Funding
• Enhancing Support for Medically Indigent
• Second Term Governor
THE AGENDA• Economic Development
Policy
• Hurricane Hugo - Response/Recovery
• Emergency Management Reform
• “Lost Trust” Reform
• Government RestructuringCARROLL CAMPBELL (R) –
GREENVILLE1987-1995
THE AGENDA
• Economic Development Policy
• Video Poker Abolition
• Confederate Flag Removal
• All Day Kindergarten Opposition
DAVID BEASLEY (R) – SOCIETY HILL
1995-1999
THE AGENDA
JIM HODGES (D) – LANCASTER1999 - 2003
• Education Policy
• Increase Teachers Salaries
• First Steps (Early Childhood) Initiative
• Hurricane Floyd - Response/Recovery
• Education Lottery
• Confederate Flag Compromise
THE AGENDA
MARK SANFORD (R) – SULLIVAN’S ISLAND
2003 - 2011
• Economic Development Policy
• School Choice Initiative
• Government Restructuring
• Heritage Trust Land Acquisition
ASSESSING THE GOVERNOR:PERCEPTION, SUBSTANCE AND LEGACY
Governor
Perceived Accomplishment
Real Accomplishment Legacy
Riley Education
2nd Term Governor/Education Transforming
CampbellEconomic Development
Hugo/Economic Develop Transforming
BeasleyEconomic Development
Cabinet Government
Transactional (high)
Hodges EducationLottery/First Steps
Transform/Transactional
SanfordGovernment Restructuring
Heritage Trust Land
Transactional (low)
THE TEMPLATE FOR THE FUTURE:LESSONS FOR FUTURE GOVERNORS
1. Limit the Agenda (2-3 Issues Per Term)
2. Ideology/Politics/Policy Interface
3. Developing Initiatives for the Office that You Hold - Not the One that You Aspire to Hold
4. Some Issues/Events Can’t Be Manipulated (Natural Catastrophes/Economic Recession)
5. A Press Conference May Start a Policy – It Doesn’t Implement It
6. Intellectual Leadership Versus Symbolic Gestures
The Inevitable Result of Electoral Politics:
Ultimately We Get Whomever We Elect
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